Episodes
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Jonathan Mann - Super-Forecaster
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Jonathan Mann is a security architect, a Good Judgment Super Forecaster, and a faculty member in the Computer Science department at NYU. He writes at https://abstraction.substack.com/
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Michael Jelen - Replay, AI, Web3
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Michael Jelen is the CEO of Replay, a web3 video streaming service.
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Jan Swafford - George Gershwin
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Jan Swafford is an American composer and the author of several musical biographies.
Monday May 27, 2024
Thomas Barfield - Nomadic People
Monday May 27, 2024
Monday May 27, 2024
Thomas Barfield is an anthropologist at Boston University, and the author of several books, including The Nomadic Alternative.
Sunday May 12, 2024
Stuart Reid - Patrice Lumumba
Sunday May 12, 2024
Sunday May 12, 2024
Stuart Reid is an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, and the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination.
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Robin Hanson - Health, AI and More
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Sunday Apr 14, 2024
Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University. His Substack is Overcoming Bias, and he is the author of multiple books, including The Elephant in the Brain.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Ellen Bass - Poet
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Ellen Bass is a poet, the winner of three Pushcart Prizes, and the author of several collections, including Indigo.
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Nicholas Krohley - Warrior Diplomats
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Nicholas Krohley is a founder of FrontLine Advisory, and the co-author of Warrior Diplomats: Civil Affairs Forces on the Front Lines.
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Michael Katz - Dostoevsky
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Michael Katz is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He is a translator of several works of Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Dave Rearick - Sailing Around the World
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Dave Rearick circumnavigated the globe, and is the author of Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone.